Curator-Led Tour: With love from your Vietnamese sisters

Friday, December 12, 2025
12 PM ET

Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Join us for a tour of Hồng-Ân Trương: With love from your Vietnamese sisters with curators Meg Rotzel and Caitlin Julia Rubin, who will discuss each element of the exhibition and the artist Hồng-Ân Trương’s engagement with archival and personal materials.

With love from your Vietnamese sisters expands upon a body of work that engages deeply with archival materials, examining structures of time, memory, and the production and circulation of narrative histories. Trương’s presentation responds to an object held at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library: a scrapbook created and gifted to Angela Davis in 1972 by the Vietnam Committee for Solidarity with the American People. Trương uses this album—which contains Vietnamese articles following Davis’s prosecution and trial in the early 1970s—as an entry point to consider the unrealized potential of international solidarities and the ethics of memory. Photographed pages from the album are printed as carbon transfer photographs on mirror, suggesting the nearness of history and the proliferation of knowledge through acts of remembering. Shown alongside other photographic work and a new, three-part single channel film, the exhibition reflects on the intimate ties and political threads that bind us across generations.

Hồng-Ân Trương is an artist and professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Using photography, sound, video, and performance, her work draws connections between narratives typically presented as disparate, underscoring the gaps and silences in conventionally told and remembered histories.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute gratefully acknowledges the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Endowment Fund for the Arts, which is supporting this exhibition.

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